Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature begins April 19 The 16th annual Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature Conference lists its schedule. All events will be in the Lecture Bowl, Memorial Union, unless otherwise listed. Saturday, April 19 9:15 to 10:45 a.m. * Michelle Sauer, Minot State University, The Rhetoric of Desire and Lesbian Space in the Late Medieval Dream Vision * Christopher Lozensky, Minot State University, ‘She Loved as Man May Do His Brother’: “Hom(m)osexuality” and Chaucer’s Un-Queer Poetics in The Book of the Duchess * Dominique Hoche, Northern State University, On Teaching Beowulf 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. * Amy Livingston, Grinnell College, Transforming the Fool's Role In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and More's Utopia * John Kerr, St. Mary's University of Minnesota, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale * Christopher Gust, University of North Dakota, The Immortal Kiss Marlowe’s Faustus and Renaissance Magia 12:30 to 1:45 p.m., lunch 2 to 3:30 p.m. * Kathleen Tamayo, St. John's University / Queensborough Community College, “Swift Re-Fashioning:” Private Women in the Masculinist Public Sphere * Yvette Koepke, University of North Dakota, TBA * Michele Wilman, North Dakota State University, Disruptions of Gender: Clerval as Androgynous Soul-Mate in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 3:45 to 5:15 p.m. * Matthias Rudolf, University of Nevada, Reno, “A Peculiar Process of Decay”: Transcription, Translation, and the Poetics of Violence * Steven W. Thomas, College of St. Benedict / St. Johns University, The Network Concept in Atlantic Literary Study * Kevin Harrelson, University of North Dakota, Natural Theology in Newton and Hume 6:30 to 10 p.m. Dinner and reception, North Dakota Museum of Art Keynote address: Margaret Groome, University of Manitoba, "'No more, but e'en a woman...' A Brave Tale of Toils and Triumphs: Women Directing the Bard in Twentieth Century Britain" Sunday, April 20 10 to 11:30 a.m. * Tarver Mathison, Minnesota State University Moorhead, “The Mask of Glory: the Facade of Royal Spectacle in Henry IV” * James Schumann, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Language vs. Observation: Empiricism and Power in The Tragedie of Mariam * Kellie Meehlhause, Minnesota State University Moorhead, "Root of Sin and Salvation: John Milton's Portrayal of Eve in Paradise Lost” Noon to 1 p.m., lunch/business meeting 1 to 2 p.m. * Sarah Aleshire, Minot State University, “We are cut with our owne dust”: On Montaigne, Webster, and Twincestuous Desire * Silas Pera, University of North Dakota, Bloody Murder in Arden of Faversham * Matt Harkins, College of St. Benedict / St. John's University, Defining Youth in Hamlet 2:15 to 3:30 p.m. * Kevin Brock, North Carolina State University, "Seeming Wealth": Wyatt's "My Mother's Maids" as Critique of Horace's Satire 2.6 * Michael Lopez, University of North Dakota, “Between Fate and Faith: Navigating Aesthetic and Ethical Morality in Macbeth, and Kierkegaard’s Either/Or” * Jennifer Christofferson, St. Cloud State University, Viewing the Passion of Christ Through the Eyes of Aemilia Lanyer and John Donne. Please call 701-777-3984 for additional information.